The science of human perfection
Subtitle: heredity and health in American biomedicine
By: Nathaniel Comfort
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New Haven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 316
ISBN-13: 9780300169911
Subjects: Heredity; History, 21st Century; Genetics; Medical Genetics; History, 20th Century; History; Eugenics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Galton-Garrod Society; title: Fisher's quest; title: A germ theory of genes; title: The heredity clinics; title: How the geneticists learned to start worrying and love mutation; title: Getting their organ; title: Genetics without sex.